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The Secret of Magic
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Description
'A powerful portrait of the Deep South in the year before the civil rights movement' - Sunday Times
If you liked The Help you'll love this one!' - Entertainment Weekly
In 1946 Regina Robichard is a rarity. A young New York civil rights lawyer working for Thurgood Marshall Reggie stumbles across a letter asking her boss to investigate the case of a young black soldier whose body has been found floating in the river in Mississippi. It fires her zeal.
For Reggie justice is not the only draw to this case. The letter is signed by the reclusive M. P. Calhoun author of one of the most banned books in the country a book Reggie loved as a child about the friendship between three children black and white a magical forest - and a murder.
Reggie has just three weeks in the South to investigate. But once down in Mississippi amid the intoxicating landscape of cotton fields and lush plantations Reggie not only finds herself further away from New York than she had ever imagined but walking directly into M. P. Calhoun's book a place where more than one type of justice exists.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
354
Release Date:
2015-02-12
Publication Date:
2015-02-12
Publisher:
Penguin
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0241968933
ISBN13:
9780241968932
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
422 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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